Quick Work FOTD Featuring Estée Lauders Travel Palette

Estée Lauder recently came out with a travel palette and of course I immediately fell in love with it! 

It has 30 eyeshadows, 15 lip sticks, 2 glosses, a double ended eyeliner pencil,  4 blush/ bronzers and I believe it cost $30 or $35- either way a good deal!

I haven't really had too much of a chance to play with it yet, but my experience so far has been disappointing. The eyeshadows which were the main attraction for me just weren't as pigmented as I thought they would be. I will post a fuller review on it once I've used it more though.

Here is my FOTD using eyeshadows and gloss from the palette though:

For my eye I used: Flirty Lilac, Purple Passion and Amethyst Spark along with my trusty Clinique creme eyeliner and MAC Paintpot in Ochre.

On my lips I used MAC Angel with the Estée Lauder Praline Paradise lipgloss.

New Hair and Going Out Look

I've been broken out in hives and nasty peely face skin for the past several weeks, so I've just kind of bummed it for a while now! I thought it was time to try and look semi-decent for date night with the husband tonite though!

Because my eyes are so peely right now, I can only use cream based eyeshadows (and it still doesn't turn out great!) which sucks as I own all of 2 cream shades! But I used Beloved by Victoria's Secret which is actually pretty good! For the cheeks I used MUFE sculpting blush in 22. On the lips I used Illmasqua gloss in Indulge which is SUPER intense, so I toned it down with MAC Lipglass in Viva Glam Gaga 2.

The lovely leopard scarf was actually sent to me via Fraas. I am a HUGE fan of scarves and you can never go wrong with leopard print! You can get it for $40 at http://www.fraas.com/.

FOTD/ My first pincurls attempt!

After prowling about on Youtube for quite a while, I decided to give pincurls a try. I am really lazy with my hair for some reason and it doesn't like heated curls too much so I thought that pincurls might be the thing for me!

This is how my first attempt turned out:

The whole process took maybe 10 minutes the night before, so I definitely think I will be trying it out more in the future!

Since pincurls are so absolutely 50's, I decided to match my makeup to that whole look too. (This picture was taken after my 8 hour shift at work so it's definitely not as good as it started out!)

I usually have a hard time wearing red lipsticks, but I recently found this shade called Healthy Lips by Laura Gellar and LOVE it!

Chicago Trip FOTD

Last weekend, I had a shopping weekend in Chicago with a friend. The shopping was AMAZING and I bought way too much at the MAC and Sephora stores! I don't know how Sephora always has this effect on me, but I walked in looking for Kat Von D's tattoo concealer and left with a MUFE concealer, blush, 4 lipsticks and 2 lipliners!

This is one of the looks that I tried out using some of the new stuff I got:

I will definitely have lots of swatches later on, but I am obsessed with the lipstick that I'm wearing here called Up the Amp from MAC! I think that it is probably my all time favorite lipstick!


 Later in the day, we went to the observatory in the John Hancock building. By then I was super exhausted from all of the shopping and looked like crap, but the view was worth it!

NYE Look featuring Lime Crime

I recently got a bunch of Lime Crime lipsticks (I will swatch them soon!) and I thought that it would be fun to do a different type of NYE look!

To get this look, I used:

Eyes:
*BH Cosmetics palette
*Urban Decay Primer Potion
*Clinique gel liner
*Benefit They're Real Mascara

Lips:
*Lime Crime Chinchilla

Face:
*Dinair Airbrushing Machine (I will be doing a review on this baby soon!)

FOTD: Green with Envy!

                   I decided it would be fun to do a green eye, with purple around the outer corner:

I used Urban Decay Primer Potion as a base with Gravity (the green shade) and Bender (purple shade) from Urban Decay's Book of Shadows 4

There is nothing like seeing a close up of my brows to make me realize that I need to get them waxed badly! And I am working on getting a better camera as my picture quality is not great. If anyone has any suggestions on great cameras, I would LOVE to hear them!